date:Aug 20, 2015
Introduction
India, world's largest milk producer, accounting for more than 16% of world's total milk production, is the world's largest consumer of dairy products.
The total amount of milk produced has tripled from 23 million tonne back in 1973 to 95 million tonne in 2008. While, the country is expecting a production level of 135 million tonne by 2015, the projected demand for milk by 2021-22 is 180 million tonne which implies that milk production would have to be doubled. Milk production is g